Perfect Sight Without Glasses

by William Horatio Bates

• The Fundamental Principle
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - Introductory
• Chapter 2 - Simultaneous Retinoscopy
• Chapter 3 - Evidence for the accepted theory of accommodation
• Chapter 4 - The truth about accommodation as demonstrated by experiments on the eye muscles of fish, cats, dogs, rabbits and other animals
• Chapter 5 - The truth about accommodation as demonstrated by a study of images reflected from the lens, cornea, iris and sclera
• Chapter 6 - The truth about accommodation as demonstrated by clinical observations
• Chapter 7 - The variability of the refraction of the eye
• Chapter 8 - What glasses do to us
• Chapter 9 - The cause and cure of errors of refraction
• Chapter 10 - Strain
• Chapter 11 - Central fixation
• Chapter 12 - Palming
• Chapter 13 - Memory as an aid to vision
• Chapter 14 - Imagination as an aid to vision
• Chapter 15 - Shifting and swinging
• Chapter 16 - The illusions of imperfect and of normal sight
• Chapter 17 - Vision under adverse conditions a benefit to the eyes
• Chapter 18 - Optimums and pessimums
• Chapter 19 - The relief of pain and other symptoms by the aid of the memory
• Chapter 20 - Presbyopia: Its cause and cure
• Chapter 21 - Squint and amblyopia: their cause
• Chapter 22 - Squint and amblyopia: their cure
• Chapter 23 - Floating specks: their cause and cure
• Chapter 24 - Home treatment
• Chapter 25 - Correspondence treatment
• Chapter 26 - The prevention of myopia in schools: Methods that failed
• Chapter 27 - The prevention and cure of myopia and other errors of refraction in schools: A method that succeeded
• Chapter 28 - The story of Emily
• Chapter 29 - Mind and vision
• Chapter 30 - Normal sight and the relief of pain for soldiers and sailors
• Chapter 31 - Letters from patients
• Chapter 32 - Reason and authority